Re: routing meltdown

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov () cisco com>]

Jon,

> Perhaps "policies, procedures & data" is a better word than "protocols" used
> in the generic sense.
>
> I want to route things differently based on the time of day, whether 
> or not a particular network is seeing heavy traffic, and what my 
> horoscope said today.  I can implement this much more easily on a 
> workstation where I have source code than I can convince Cisco to 
> implement it.  

I wonder how many ISP operations have a requirement to support
internet-wide routing based on such factors as traffic load or
your horoscope. Let me personally assure you that if there will be enough 
demand, then there will be enough supply. 

Yakov.